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What does it mean!?!?!?!!!

Shocking you? You mean by displaying naughty pictures on the monitor of people doing naughty things?

It means you should stop visiting those sites. Yeah, you know - those ones.

Or maybe it means you aren't visiting enough.....

Do you mean like static electricity type shock? Or do you mean the wiring is wacko and your hair goes into an unintended afro every time you touch the keyboard?

If the first, don't wear rubber soles.

If the latter, I hope you don't have a pacemaker.

I mean the electric kind of shock...(people doing naughty things is not shocking. )

It's weird...the metal pieces under/between the keys shocks me everytime my fingers manage to touch them. And even around the outside edge of the monitor and underneath, the metal pieces shock me!!!!!

Sometimes I think mine does that, too, but I'm not sure. In your case, it seems obvious that you have a short somewhere, and I would suspect that is not good.

You shouldn't be getting shocks. Someone qualified needs to look at it and repair it because it could be life-threatening.

Yes definitely get the laptop looked at. I have heard of all kinds of craziness with those things start shocking people.

and.. since you had to ask this question.. you are an idiot...

it means stop touching it!

Lalaith has given me the answer I was looking for..(the dwarf gave the answer I most certainly was NOT looking for).

I was wondering if it has to do w/ some kind of loose wires or such.

Funny thing is, it's not shocking me tonight.

Still an idiot..

You weren't by chance typing with wool gloves on the other night, were you?

Yeah, yeah dwarf....put me down to ease your sense of inferiority in this social situation.

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Legolas the elf wrote:

...(people doing naughty things is not shocking.

You clearly haven't looked hard enough.

Lego, I'd look at two things (and this is completely my unqualified opinion). I'd wonder if it was the connections between your monitor and your keyboard, and I'd check your power supply. Are you running off battery or power supply? I know my old power supply was designed poorly and wires ended up being exposed. I wrapped them with electrical tape, but, eventually, I just had to get a new power supply. (But, hey! A new power supply is cheaper than a new laptop!)

You could also try unplugging the laptop and removing the battery. Then push the power button down for about 20 seconds. Tech support always tells me to do this when I am restarting my computer, and apparently it has something to do with excess power being stored in the laptop or something. I dunno if that's true. But it's worth a try.

If all it is is a static shock, it probably just means you've been shuffling your feet on the carpet. Do you continue to feel a shock for as long as you keep touching it?

Does it feel like static electricity? There are three types of electricity we could be dealing with here - static DC, DC from the laptop and AC from the laptop. I'm assuming you've experienced a shock from both static and AC, and they feel different. AC is a jolting jarring shock, while DC is more of a sharp steady painful shock. Static electricity is DC, but it hits you with one quick DC zap and then it's gone. This is because static builds up over time and then sits there waiting for some way to dissipate. Once you dissipate it, it's gone until it has a chance to build up again. So if it zaps you once and then it's gone until you put the laptop away and walk around and stuff, it's just static electricity and there's nothing wrong with your laptop. But if it keeps shocking you even though you haven't gone anywhere, then there's something wrong with the laptop and you need to get it checked out.

This is going to sound like a stupid question, but do you have gas heat?
Speaking from my own experiences in the same geographical area as you (Knoxville and Nashville), every place I've lived in that had gas heat has given me problems with static electricity during cold weather. This is because gas heat dries out the air and static builds up easier in lower humidity. My laptop tends to zap me the first time I touch a metal part whenever it gets cold out. It doesn't do this when it's warm.